Word: curtains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge of her husband's defection as a means of getting her to rebound into his embrace, begins to fall in with his view of the situation. She dutifully forbids him access to her house, but only after the preliminary precaution of ascertaining his address. The curtain thereupon falls, and the houselights reveal the hot flush of embarrassment on the faces of the audience...
...something to happen to their emotions. Some are defiant. They set their teeth, adjust their faces to a sneer of quiet superiority, fortify themselves against any attack. Others go with their tongues hanging out. If it is a farce, they control their risibilities with an effort until the curtain rises. If it is a tragedy, they will be provided against any lachrymal emergency with pocketfuls of anticipatory handkerchiefs...
Within the last few weeks, there have been four new plays without a "happy ending." There was, for example, A Square Peg. The maltreated husband therein killed himself just before taking his final curtain call, but that was not the trag-edy of the piece. The tragic climax came when he was denied the grateful haven of a jail sentence. It was not an inspiring catastrophe. One hardly felt toward Mr. Huckins as toward a Lucifer, shouting defiance from the overheated shade of the Inferno...
...announcement that the tradition is at least to be broken, and that students of the college will be allowed to look behind the curtain of the Workshop, will be sufficient in itself to arouse interest. The fact that the play is an especially good one, and that the invitation may not be repeated soon again, are added reasons for marking February 19 "Reserved" in the calendar of coming events...
...final curtain of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of Andreyev's "Life of Man", at Brattle Hall last Tuesday evening, left a profound impression on the audience as a whole, and an impulsive desire on the individual's part to rush up and shake hands all around, with producers and actors alike, on the success of this, their supreme achievement. Last year, in "Beranger", the club undertook what many thought to be a task beyond its scope and power--and finished it with high credit to themselves. In the present instance, this courageous little group of workers entered upon...